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Montana Ace Hardware opened its 5th location April 1, a 25,000sq. ft. store in Kalispell, Mt.; Stu and Meg Weis, owners; Don Pearce, general mgr. ...

Frontier Building Supply, Friday Harbor, Wa., has closed its retail operations and laid off 8 workers, but will continue as a point of distribution for deliveries from its store in Anacortes, Wa.

Canby Ace Hardware, Canby, Or., will open this summer in a 15,000-sq. ft. building that previously housed an Ace Hardware until three years ago

True Value, Glenwood Springs, Co., is losing its lease and, unable to find a suitable new location, will likely close its 26,000-sq. ft. store by Jan. I

84 Lumber Co. this summer anticipates opening a 34,550-sq. ft. store and 19,200-sq. ft. components manufacturing plant on 20 acres in Chandler, Az.; a 12,000sq. ft. store and 16,800-sq. ft. component plant on 20.13 acres in Post Falls, Id.; a 48,000-sq. ft. store on 9.71 acres in Tucson. Az.. and an 11.36-acre, 105,600-sq. ft. truss plant on the 23.96-acre site of its store in Sacramento, Ca. ...

F ergus on Ent erpri s e s, Stockton, Ca., received a lO-year lease for a 120,000-sq. ft. building and 30 acres from the Port of Stockton ..

Home Depot opened a new store March 31 in Payson, Az.; made a bid to buy land in Tooele, Ut.; received approval to build stores in Phoenix, Az., and Ceres, Ca.; applied to add another store in Salem, Or.; withdrew plans to build in La Mirada, Ca., due to local opposition, and had workers evacuated at a store in San Diego, Ca., after a forklift driven by an employee broke a natural gas line leading to an overhead heater

Lawe's Cos. has broken ground on a 116,000-sq. ft. store in Apple Valley, Ca.; received approval to build new stores in Torrance, Ca., and Kent, Wa.; expects a 4th quarter 2005 opening in Longmont, Co., and is scouting sites in Turlock. Ca. ...

Building Materials Holding Corp., San Francisco, Ca., has acquired a majority interest in Tucson and Phoenix, Az., atea installer Riggs Plumbing, LLC through its wholly owned subsidiary BMC Construction,Inc.

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Cooley Industries subsidiary Cooley Reload, Phoenix, Az, has opened a 9-acre, Union Pacificserved reload facility serving the Southwest with rail capacity handling up to twelve 81' cars; Dean Cooley, president; Jeff Pappe, yard mgr....

Orgill has opened a 500,000-sq. ft. Southwest regional DC in Hurricane, Ut. -its first warehouse west of the Mississippi River; the facility could be expanded as large as 800,000 sq. ft.

Cascade Capital, Tacoma, Wa., has leased 3 acres across the street from its current location for expansion, particularly of EWP

Jeld-Wen, Klamath Falls, Or., has temporarily laid off 43 employees to retool its Everett, Wa., door plant from producing softwood doors to higher end custom hardwood products ...

Lester Shingle, Sweet Home, Or., rebuilt and reopened its mill that was damaged by arson fire last September ...

Louisiana-Pacific Corp. is permanently shuttering its OSB plant in Malakwa, B.C., and its longidled facility in Woodland, Me,, and agreed to sell its pine mill in Gwinn, Mi., to Potlatch Corp., Spokane, Wa. ...

P ennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Co. is now doing business in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada. New Mexico and Utah

Gorman Bros. Ltd., Westbank, 8.C., added three new dry kilns for a total of 2l

Canfor Corp., Vancouver, 8.C., completed the sale of its Fort St. James sawmill and related tenures to Pope & Talbot Inc., Portland, 0r.. and the sale of its sawmill in Slocan, B.C., to Springer Creek Forest Products Ltd. ...

Sierra- P acific Industries sold two tracts of forestland along the American River and near Barker Pass totalling over 1,000 acres to the Tahoe National Forest ...

PIum Creek Timber Co., Seattle, Wa., agreed to buy roughly 56,000 acres of timberland in Florida from Greif, Inc. subsidiary Soterra LLC for $90 million

Advantage Busine s s Computer Systems acquired the distribution systems business of Versyss Com' mercial Systems; Advantage has taken over the employees, client portfolio and contracts through a wholly owned subsidiary, Versyss Data Systems ...

Progressive Solutions Inc. has sold its 50th bisTrack system, reportedly making bisTrack the fastest growing business software solution for building materials dealers and distributors ...

National Association of Home Builders is pulling its 2007 and 2008 conventions out of Atlanta, Ga., explaining that its show has outgrown the city

BMD, Galt, Ca., is now exclusive Ca. distributor for Jager IJoist and is carrying Ainsworth's Durastrand flooring and Therma' strand radiant barrier ... BMD was recognized for sales performance in2A04by GRK Fasteners ,..

New site: Morgan Creek Forest Products, Healdsburg, Ca., www. morgancreekforestproducts.com innovative railing system allows you to simply place the 6'wide panel into the pre-engineered rail slots. rail slots, seven glass panels. lt's that easy.

Anniversaries: Goodman Build' ing Supply, Mill Valley, Ca., 50th ... Redhill Forest Products,HaYden Lake, Id., 10th ...

Housing starts in March (latest figures) declined lSVo to an annual rate of 1.837 million single family starts fell I4Vo,with multifamily down 3l%o ... permits slipped 4Vo ... starts were off I2.7Vo in the West.